All men not saved by grace exist in a state of inner death and darkness caused by sin inherited from Adam's fall. This death constitutes a state of separation from God's Love, and possibly, a state of absolute darkness and nothingness following physical death. God does not fail to love fallen humans, but the darkness within humans cause them to fail to love God. Revelation 20:13; Matthew 25:30. This dark state comes from the abyss, or "the deep," as the devils called it in Luke 8:31. All humans alive in the flesh possess a portion of this inner death and darkness except those saved by God's grace. The recreated souls and spirits of all persons saved by grace go immediately to heaven following physical death. II Corinthians 5:8. However, the physical consciousnesses of believers saved by grace who practice unconfessed sins, Christ may judge to be cast into the abyss following their physical deaths as a temporary punishment for their correction and repentance. Luke 12:46. The physical consciousnesses of believers who refrain from sin, and who daily repent of their sins will be asleep at the Rapture of the Church. I Thessalonians 4:14. In Ephesians 5:25-27, God promised that He will thoroughly cleanse His Church of all fleshly sins by washing it in the water of His Word at the Rapture of the Church. According to Revelation 2:10, God's thorough cleansing of His Church will take no more than ten days. After ten days, all believers within the abyss will have repented, be returned to Christ, and Christ will present the Church to the Father as absolutely holy, without any blemish or spot in body, soul, and spirit. Ephesians 5:25-27.
The basic characteristic of all life is consciousness. Consciousness defines life. The basic element of consciousness consists of an inner sense as opposed to an outer sense. Even amoebas possess an inner consciousness when they eat and an outer consciousness when they avoid poison. Mankind possesses a highly advanced consciousness which extends far beyond these limits. Every person has a spirit, soul, and body with a corresponding consciousness. Man's spiritual consciousness is that of God unless blocked by sin. Man's soulish consciousness consists of his identity, personality, intellect, emotions, creativity, and will power. Whenever a person devoid of a spiritual consciousness of God hears about Him, he can will himself to know God better or he can choose to ignore God. The physical, or fleshly, consciousness of man consists of his knowledge of the world through his five senses and of his own body's interaction with it. Those who get saved by God's grace return to a knowledge of God in their souls and spirits. But their fleshly consciousness must be sanctified by daily repentance until the Rapture of the Church. John 13:1-17; I John 1:9. At the Rapture of the Church, Christ will have already thoroughly cleansed the spirits and souls of all His saints with His blood He shed on the cross, but He must finish the sanctification of the recreated bodies of all His saints by washing them in the water of His Word; that is, the water He shed on the cross. Ephesians 5:25-27.
The consciousnesses of all humans not saved by grace exist in one of two categories, those who know God and those who do not. Those humans who have never heard of God's Law or grace do not know God at all. According to Romans 5:13-14 and Acts 17:29-30, God does not hold those who do not know Him accountable for their sins of the soul and spirit. God created the human spirit to be conscious of Him, and the human soul to be, in part, the willingness to be conscious of Him. God puts those who do not know Him in the same category as small children who have not reached the age of accountability. Their condition does not mean they are saved by grace. The sin and death that infects their souls and spirits still causes them to go to a place called "the prison" following their physical deaths. According to I Peter 3:19-20 and Revelation 20:3 and 7, this prison is the same place as the bottomless pit; that is, the abyss. According to Romans 5:14, those who do not know God cannot sin "after the similitude of Adam's transgression," meaning that they cannot deliberately sin against God because they do not know Him. They can only commit sins of weakness which God always cleanses and forgives. Luke 23:34. Adam was most like Satan when he deliberately sinned against God. But God forgave Adam's deliberate sin because he repented of it which changed it to a sin of weakness. Persistent deliberate sin constitutes a state of being like that of the Devil. Humans who persist in deliberate sins never repent and God never forgives them. They are totally evil and rebellious, and God will separate their total evil from them and cast it into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:15; Revelation 21:8.
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